The Echinoid Directory

Family Urechinidae Duncan, 1889, p. 211

Diagnosis

 Urechinine holasteroid echinoids with:

  • thin-plated test;
  • ambulacral pores outside phyllodes single;
  • no anterior sulcus;
  • no rostral plate;
  • periproct inframarginal;
  • subanal fasciole generally present (unknown in some species represented by adults only).
Range
Recent; worldwide (deep sea).